THE FLORAL MAGAZINE 
NEW SERIES.] OCTOBER, 1880. [No. 106. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 
Taking up our record of the production of novelties, we 
have now to deal with the meeting of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society on August 24. The most remarkable 
plant shown on this occasion was a flowering specimen 
of what the Gardener’s Chronicle terms, “that most 
remarkable of Orchids, the gigantic-leaved Bulbo- 
phyllum Beccarii.” It is a species with huge leathery 
leaves and flowers arranged in a dense drooping cluster 
about six inches long, the colour of these pale rose or 
dull purple hue. The flowers give off an odour of a 
most offensive character, which is said to be even more 
intense than that of the vilest Carrion-flower (Stapelia), 
and the presence of which undoubtedly detracts from 
its otherwise noble character. It was awarded a 
Botanical Certificate of Merit, and came from Messrs. 
E. G. Henderson and Son, Pine Apple Place Nursery. 
First-class Certificates of Merit were awarded to the 
following new and rare plants, viz. : — Laelia elegans 
prasiata, a large-flowered and highly-coloured variety, 
the sepals of a purplish-violet hue, the broad lip being 
richly coloured with brilliant amethyst (B. S. Williams) ; 
Lilium Parkmani (A. Waterer), a very fine hybrid, 
which has all the glory of colour of the finest L. speci- 
osum, and the size and form of the Auratum section, 
and when fully expanded the flowers measure a foot 
across the extended petals, each petal being suffused 
with crimson on a white ground, and clotted and 
warted with a deeper crimson, these markings showing 
faintly through the whitish back of the flower. In 
addition, Mr. Waterer had a pure white hybrid named 
Mrs. Waterer, a cross between L. auratum and L. 
speciosum, the flower is about the size of those of L. 
Parkmani, but pure white, with here and there faint 
spots of crimson-purple. These two Lilies are, we 
apprehend, only the beginning of a new race of fine 
hybrids. 
The following fine new forms of the Gladiolus were 
awarded First-class Certificates of Merit, viz.: — Opiter, 
pink feathered with crimson, the throat pencilled with 
puce ; Aquinum, very deep rose-pink, feathered with 
crimson, a fine bold and distinct flower; Anthony 
Waterer, clear crimson-scarlet, with a white bar down 
each petal ; Pilumnus, wdiite, the throat pencilled with 
rosy-lilac, a flower of large size and fine form ; Calli- 
phon, rosy-pink, heavily feathered with rose, the centre 
coloured with lemon ; and Phormis, pink, heavily 
feathered and shaded with rosy-crimson, fine in size 
and superb in quality. All these were from Messrs. 
Kelway and Son, Langport, and quite up to the cha- 
racter of their new flowers. Dahlias, also, were in 
force from various growers, and the following were 
awai’ded First-class Certificates of Merit : — Goldfinder 
(Turner), a fine bold clear yellow Self-flower, with 
dashes of purple on the backs of the petals, fine form 
and outline ; Queen of Spain, buff tipped with purple, 
of good size and very good form, with excellent centre ; 
Revival, a Self-coloured flower of a bright shade of 
maroon, the petals tipped with purple, very fine in 
quality. All these came from Mr. C. Turner, Slough. 
The same award was made to the following flowers 
from Messrs. Keynes and Co., Salisbury : — Lady Wim- 
borne, deep pink shaded with rose, remarkable for the 
novelty of its colour and the fine shape and outline of 
the flowers ; James Vick, dark maroon, suffused with 
violet on the outline of the flower, large, of great 
depth of substance and an excellent centre ; and Mrs. 
Compton, a deep crimson, fine in form, good substance 
and splendid quality. A very fine rich scarlet Self, 
named Walter A. Williams, a flower that will take a 
high place as an exhibition variety, was also shown. 
Some pretty new forms of the Pompon Dahlias— a 
most useful section for gardeners to grow, because so 
useful for cutting from — were sent by Mr. C. Turner, 
and to two of these First-class Certificates were 
awarded, viz., Frau Professor King, deep rose, a most 
compact and prettily-shaped flower of a very pleasing 
character ; and Dr. Rauch, salmon-red, of very pretty 
shape. These are both of German origin, and we have 
pleasure in bearing testimony to the efforts of the 
German florists towards improving these pretty and 
! useful flowers. 
Other novelties produced on this occasion comprised 
some fine panicles of that most useful autumn-flowering 
deciduous shrub, Hydi-angea paniculata floribunda 
(Veitch and Sons) ; Odontoglossum vexitivum, a spe- 
cies resembling O. nebulosum in its habit of growth, 
and the flowers like a white form of O. maculatum (B. 
S. Williams) ; Croton Cloth of Gold, a fine variety, 
wflth long lanceolate leaves of a clear canary-yellow 
marked with green (Lyne Stephens) ; Stephanotis 
florabunda, the Elvaston variety, that blooms with 
remarkable freedom in quite a young state (Goodacre); 
